It started with a stick........

[jameshunt]

This damp weather is getting tiresome :angry:

we really need to do some finish sanding and oiling but the weather has to be dry for it.

not only do we want a dry festival (several tons of mud encrusted sculptures are not much fun to refinish) but we need a few days of good weather before the festival.

*to whom it may concern, this is NOT a weather thread*

[clockworkpurple]

This thread is too good to have fallen to page 4, so *bump*

[mandypants]

Brillo looks pretty space age there, it could be a rocket

[Sawdusty surfer]

Best of luck with the weather, but would it be possible to string a large tarp over it to continue sanding in the dry?

[jameshunt]

yes, you're right, tarps help, but even under tarps the humidity in downpours is enough to raise the grain and make finish sanding a 'mare. clogged sanding discs and furry finish. i have a workshop and yard a few miles away but it has little glass in the windows so won't really help. With our current workload we could really do with a small modern industrial unit....easy life.

anyway , we are just relying on a few good weather days from time to time.

6 weeks ago we were all smug as we were so ahead of schedule. how things change

on a huge positive note, all 16 thrones are now finish sanded and oiled. 8 with 4 coats and 8 with 1 coat.such a relief, you wouldnt believe it. dodging showers and the last coat dried just before the heavens opened. skin of our teeth!

anorak point. oil for outdoor wood? Only use Danish Oil and always choose Rustins.

[Sawdusty surfer]

let me know if i am starting to bore you, and i'll stop, but i'll take a few pics of my workshop and post them. i've rented it for 12 years and the site has been woody since 1836(except for 3 years before i had it when it was a car workshop) when it was the village wheelwrights. owned by the local old type lord of the manor.top bloke!

it is a shrine to sawdust, cobwebs and even more sawdust.

[stutheblue]

let me know if i am starting to bore you, and i'll stop, but i'll take a few pics of my workshop and post them. i've rented it for 12 years and the site has been woody since 1836(except for 3 years before i had it when it was a car workshop) when it was the village wheelwrights. owned by the local old type lord of the manor.top bloke!

it is a shrine to sawdust, cobwebs and even more sawdust.

[coolethan]

The pictures are fascinating! I remember spotting this stuff at Glasto and thinking how fantastic it looked... but didn't consider the effort that goes into it. tip top! And I'm in love with Brillo!

[guypjfreak]

Please don't stop, most interesting thread on here. Plus we get to see Brillo, loved him in the video collecting the scraps.

[laid back in the sun]

i'll willingly donate this stick... i dont do deliveries though

its beech, about twenty foot long and to save you some work half of that is already pre hollowed out thanks to the horse shoe fungus...

and all done with a tiny little stihl!

[Sawdusty surfer]

i'll willingly donate this stick... i dont do deliveries though

its beech, about twenty foot long and to save you some work half of that is already pre hollowed out thanks to the horse shoe fungus...

and all done with a tiny little stihl!

[Sawdusty surfer]

a lump of western red cedar about to be turned into a magic mushroom to replace the one that was stolen last year. it is from the same tree as the rest of the set and came from a garden at the top of glastonbury town.

[Sawdusty surfer]

trying to spruce up the old caravan in time.

[Sawdusty surfer]

and thats not me, btw.

[jameshunt]

and thats not me, btw.

[laid back in the sun]

nice stick you have there. i hope it doesn't end up as firewood.

i see you live in NI. Any chance you can stick it on your roofrack on the way over....alternatively i have heard that Ryan Air have a very generous hand baggage allowance

and why ruin a great photo by including a nasty orange and white object in it?

[refriedgenes]

This is where you post a picture of a matchstick as a before and after and we all have a good chuckle at the bluntness of your Swiss Army knife.

(Will be sure to come and have a look though...)

[guypjfreak]

trying to spruce up the old caravan in time.

[jameshunt]

thats a top of the range bit of kit you've got there old son wot wagon do you pull it with??

[guypjfreak]

Here it is last year in the CN field, hiding behind some wooden toadstools. I think that's the lorry used to pull it parked up behind it.

Edited June 11, 2010 by guypjfreak

[Sawdusty surfer]

we tow it with an ex Devon and Cornwall 1977 Bedford Fire engine.We rarely exceed 35mph as lorries in its day vere very slow. The proper term for that type of caravan is Showman's Living Waggon. Ours was built by Taskers in the early 1930's for Chipperfields Circus. Here's a pic taken yesterday with the tarp off the roof. It has a "mollycroft" roof which is a style which is very prone to leaks.

Edited June 12, 2010 by jamesontheverge

[Sawdusty surfer]

A sequoia disc before

[Sawdusty surfer]

and after

you may not see this one at the festival as it is going to be in the BBC garden in the BBC compound, although you will see it in the TV coverage afterwards

[guypjfreak]

absolutely brilliant old son BRILLO looks like hes saying oi this is my mushroom .thanks again for the photos.

[laid back in the sun]

A sequoia disc before